Leaders of black lives matter

First Stacey Abrams romped to victory in Georgia’s gubernatorial primary. Then came Ben Jealous in Maryland and, on Tuesday, Andrew Gillum. Five years after the rise of Black Lives Matter — and against the backdrop of a White House that has inflamed racial tensions nationwide — Gillum’s upset win in Florida laid bare the potency of a new generation of black leaders gradually coming to power within the Democratic Party.Story Continued Below With Gillum’s defeat of former Rep. Gwen Graham, Democrats will send three black nominees for governor to November’s general elections. A large number of African-Americans are running for competitive House seats in majority-white districts. A black Democrat could become the next House speaker, and several of the Democratic Party’s top-tier prospective presidential candidates are black. “There is an undeniable energy behind women and candidates of color across the country, and it is in direct defiance to … [Read more...] about Surge of black candidates comes as Trump stokes racial tensions

Don Thompson, Associated Press Updated 5:11 pm, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 window._taboola = window._taboola || []; _taboola.push({ mode: 'thumbnails-c', container: 'taboola-interstitial-gallery-thumbnails-4', placement: 'Interstitial Gallery Thumbnails 4', target_type: 'mix' }); _taboola.push({flush: true}); Photo: Don Thompson, AP Image 1of/4 CaptionClose Image 1 of 4 Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert speaks during a news conference Wednesday, April 18, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. The Northern California prosecutor says it may be more than a year before her office decides if two police officers broke the law when they fatally shot a black man who was later found to be unarmed. She went on to say that her office doesn't yet have the Sacramento police report into last month's death of 22-year-old Stephon Clark. less Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie … [Read more...] about Review of police shooting in Sacramento may take over a year

For at least a year, the biggest page on Facebook purporting to be part of the Black Lives Matter movement was a scam with ties to a middle-aged white man in Australia, a review of the page and associated accounts and websites conducted by CNN shows. The page, titled simply "Black Lives Matter," had almost 700,000 followers on Facebook, more than twice as many as the official Black Lives Matter page. It was tied to online fundraisers that brought in at least $100,000 that supposedly went to Black Lives Matter causes in the U.S. At least some of the money, however, was transferred to Australian bank accounts, CNN has learned. Fundraising campaigns associated with the Facebook page were suspended by PayPal, Donorbox, Classy, and Patreon after CNN contacted each of the companies for comment. The discovery raises new questions about the integrity of Facebook's platform and the content hosted there. In the run-up to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's testimony before Congress this week, … [Read more...] about The biggest Black Lives Matter page on Facebook is fake

A Black Lives Matter group is demanding that a Chicago cemetery remove the 123-year-old monument standing over a mass grave of over 4,000 Confederate prisoners who died in a U.S. Army-sponsored POW camp during the Civil War. Several groups, including Black Lives Matter, Black Youth Project 100, and Smash White Supremacy Chicago, have issued their demands calling the memorial to the dead prisoners of war “a monument to white supremacy,” the Chicago Sun-Times reported.Protesters set up a vigil outside the cemetery situated on the City’s near south side in the Greater Grand Crossing neighborhood, only a few miles from Barack Obama’s former home in the city’s Hyde Park neighborhood. The demonstrators carried signs and banners, one reading, “Honor Black Lives, No Monuments to Racism.” But, in fact, the monument has little to do directly with “the Confederacy.”Supporters of the federally protected monument, which has stood on the … [Read more...] about Black Lives Matter Demand Removal of Confederate Prisoner of War Dead Marker in Chicago Cemetery